Have real conversations with Aristotle, Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, and more. Powered by AI and grounded in their actual writings, Séance brings philosophy to life.
DownloadPhilosophy isn't just for textbooks. Séance makes the wisdom of the ages accessible through conversation.
Every conversation is grounded in the philosopher's real writings. Our RAG pipeline retrieves relevant passages to keep responses faithful to their ideas.
From Aristotle and Plato to Simone de Beauvoir and Sor Juana — spanning Ancient Greece, Rome, Enlightenment Europe, and beyond.
Jump straight in with 20 free message credits. No sign-up, no credit card — just open the app and start chatting.
Choose from standard, succinct, poetic, or nuanced modes — each philosopher has a default style that matches their character.
Choose who you'd like to learn from. Each philosopher responds in their own voice, drawing on their actual works.
Ancient Greece · Virtue Ethics
Ancient Greece · Idealism
Ancient Greece · Socratic Method
19th Century Germany · Existentialism
20th Century France · Feminism
Ancient China · Confucianism
18th Century England · Feminism
Roman Empire · Stoicism
…and more, including René Descartes, Hannah Arendt, Seneca, Epictetus, Immanuel Kant, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Séance is a mobile app that lets you have AI-powered conversations with history's greatest philosophers. Each philosopher responds in their own voice and style, drawing on their actual published works for accuracy.
When you send a message, Séance searches the philosopher's real texts to find relevant passages, then uses AI to generate a response that stays true to their ideas and writing style. This technique is called Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Yes! You get 20 free message credits when you open the app — no account required. You can register for an account to get additional credits.
We currently have 14 philosophers spanning over 2,500 years: Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Confucius, René Descartes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Immanuel Kant, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. More are on the way.
Every response is grounded in the philosopher's actual writings through our RAG pipeline. While AI-generated responses are interpretive by nature, they are anchored to real source material rather than invented from scratch.
No. You can start chatting immediately as an anonymous user with 20 free credits. Creating an account lets you save your chat history and get more credits.
Séance is built with Flutter and is available on iOS and Android, with a web version planned.
Register for a free account to receive additional credits. We're also working on premium plans for users who want unlimited conversations.
" The unexamined life is not worth living. "
" One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. "
" He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. "
" I think, therefore I am. "
" We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. "
" The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone. "
" It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. "
" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "
" The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. "
" It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "
" It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. "
" The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. "
